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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Started conversation Aug 12, 2003
Entry: A Mission From God: The Future of the Blues - A1142786
Author: Blues Shark - Wailing away on the wall on the Strand - U154264
Here we go one, last one for a bit as i'm away for a fortnight. Might be the last one full stop but there are some ore I'd like to do, time permitting
A1142786 - A Mission From God: The Future of the Blues
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 13, 2003
Okay dokey then.....
"Albert King to capture a market he had all but dominated in the late sixties repeatedly failed John Lee Hooker was fighting and losing"
Missing full stop between 'failed' and 'John'.
‘powerful enough to turn goats piss into gasoline’.
Missing apostraphe in "goats' ".
"40’s and 50’s had played with Howling Wolf"
No apostraphes in 40s and 50s.
With it’s invigorating mix of blues,
Apostraphe, possessive 'its'. Bad shark 
"Muddy Waters band in a Maxwell Street Jam"
"Muddy Waters' band".
"50’s and 60’s, Hooker was without"
50s and 60s.
However, in the late 80’s Hooker signed with the Rosebud
"In the late 80s, however"
"..and very quickly they put his career into a huge turnaround."
Sounds odd. I don't really think you can "put a career into a huge turnaround". How about "they very quickly began to turn his career around"?
"Within a couple of years figures such as Buddy Guy who had been without"
"Within a couple of years figures such as Buddy Guy, who had been without"
"Albert Collins, who had sworn of recording contracts altogether"
off, rather than of.
"a wave of popularity that lead not only to increased record sales"
Led, not lead.
Throughout the entry you change between Blues and blues- which one is it to be?
"most important blues albums of the 90’s, ‘A Ass Pocket Of Whisky.’"
Is "A Ass Pcoket" the title of the album, or should it be "an"?
"surprise TV hit ‘The Soprano’s’."
Err, should that appostraphe be there?
‘I feel so bad
I feel like breakin’ somebodies arm’
"somebody's arm", surely?
"Little Axe2 are a group of musicians cantered"
Random '2', plus 'centred', surely, rather than 'cantered', unless they're trotting around fields....
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 13, 2003
Thanks for that sweetie.
I'll go idy it up later this evening.
Still not sure about whose arm is being broken though your version mayy make *slightly* more sense...
A1142786 - A Mission From God: The Future of the Blues
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 13, 2003
Well- break it down.
You have an arm
it belongs to somebody
therefore it is
somebody's arm
It doesn't matter to whom it belongs- all that matters is that it belongs to someone. He only wants to break an 'arm', not 'arms', therefore it cannot belong to more than one person, therefore it cannot be somebodies. For a start, I've just looked in a doctionary, and 'somebodies' is not a word. 'some bodies' would be, but that would mean 'more than on body.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 13, 2003
Ok, you win. I'm a bad
A1142786 - A Mission From God: The Future of the Blues
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 13, 2003
Yay me. Guess those 'archaic' teaching methods had their uses after all
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njan (afh) Posted Aug 25, 2003
*sidles in and takes a break from subbing*
I'm half way through the blues project! hurrah!
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J Posted Sep 20, 2003
Oh Njan? I read somewhere this project was done and sub'd 
Would you mind withdrawing this from the Writing Workshop to help ease the search of great entries in the WW?
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Writing Workshop: A1142786 - A Mission From God: The Future of the Blues
- 1: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Aug 12, 2003)
- 2: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Aug 13, 2003)
- 3: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Aug 13, 2003)
- 4: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Aug 13, 2003)
- 5: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Aug 13, 2003)
- 6: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Aug 13, 2003)
- 7: njan (afh) (Aug 25, 2003)
- 8: J (Sep 20, 2003)
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